The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-13

President Of tn e
Uaited States, for the
! benefit of common
schools in said Terri .
tory.
The said CORPORATION" referred TO is
the Perpetual Emigration Fund Com
pany. The following section OF the
fucker substitute is stricken out:
SEC. l7.-,bat the eleventh paragraph Of
the third section OF the act entitled An act
in rel ton to courts and judicIs! offlcers OF
the ertitOry OF Utah, approved June go,
1874, be, and the same is hereby amended,
50 as TO read as follows: "a writ of error
from the supreme Court of the United States
to the Supreme Court of the said Territory
shall lie ia ell criminal cases where the ac-
cused shall have been sentenced TO capital
punishment, or convicted OF Olgamy, peIyg-
any or unlawful coha bitatiOn, or OF any Of
Tense under the act entitled An act to
amend SECTION fiftv three hundred ana NIFTY
two of the re ised statutes OF the lnlteu
States in ref renee TO bigamy, and Tor otner
purposes approved March 22d, 1857, or un
der this act, whether the judgment com
planned of was rendered before or al er the
approval of this act, and writ OF error from
the Supreme court OF the United states 70
the Supreme Court OF the Territory or an
appeal to the Supreme Court OF the United
States from the supreme Court IL The Terri
tory shall likewise lie and be allowed, or to
any decree or judgment rendered IN any
proceeding or suit authorized under the SIX
teenth section of this act. And the Su-
preme Court of the United states IS autho!-
lied to speed all cases arising under this
section and dispose of them as promptly as
possible without regard to their place upon
the docket: Provided, hOl0eueT, that the WIZ
OF error or appeal hereby allowed shaIi o
taken and prosecuted within the period I'M
tied in like cases from judgments ana De
crees of the Circuit Courts OF the United
s ates. or within one year OF the approval OF
this act"
The following proviso of section Is,
in reference to the property to be held
by religious societies, is stricken out
by the committee. st.r.
Provided, hoUerer, That such cal prop
erty shall not exceed in an Incorporated
own or city, ten acres, or elsewhere fifty
acres. Nor shall any such society, sect or
denomination have or hold, eX 'ept IN the
value Of buildings erected on said real
property as aforesaid, and in the value of
the personal properly used in religious Wol-
ship, or for the comfort of those assembled
therefor, greater amount In money yaB2e
than fifty thousand dollars.
The last clause of section p, in rela-
ton to dover, is stricken out, as follows;
() The term lawful wife. wherever used
in this statute, shall be held to mean, in all
cases, of Mormon or plural marriages the
first wife, and such wife only shall be en-
titled to dewer under this act on the death
Of her husband.
Section % authorized the Governor.
Secretary and United States Marshal to
redistrict the Territory and apportion
the representation in the Legis-
lative Assembly, but the committee
has changed this, corferring the power
on the Commissioners. Some changes
have been made in the wording of the
test oath, but the provision remains sub
stsntially as it was. The following sec
tionshave been stricken out, and the
President is authorized to appoint the
probate judges:
C.'26.-That the Council of the Territory
OF Utah shall hereafter consist of thirteen
members, appointed by the President, by
aud with the advice and consent OF the SEN
ate, every two years. the members of which
shall be citizens resident in said Territory,
Que to be selected from each district of the
Territory, according to the appointment
pro vided for in the 23d section of this act,
snd probate courts and selectmen of each |
county of said Territory, and all CLERK of
said courts, justices of the peace, sheriffs |
constables and other Territorial, comfy, |
district and municipal officers, shall here, |
after be appointed a. follows, and all laws 70 |
the contrary are hereby repealed:
The President shall have power to nomi-
nate and, by and with the advice and con-
sent OF the Senate, to appoint ali judges and
Selectmen of the county and probate courts
a If fXun rfc
shall appoint their clerks, recorders and re-
gisIers Of deeds, wills and other papers by
law required to be recorded.
The Governor, by and with the advice
and consent OF the Council, shall have
power 10 appoint all justices OF thu peace.
sheriffs. con tables and all other county,
district and municipal officers the Territory
not herein herwise provided for
The Supreme Court is authorized to
appoint Commissioner of common
schools, but all other officers of the
Territory are to be elected as provided
Tor in the Territorial Statutes! as they
now exist.
1t will thus be seen that the changes
made by the committee are very i'm.
oortant, many of the bad features of
The bill having been stricken out or
modified. The amendments are so great
and so much fairer than the anti Nor
non lobbyists wanted or expec ed that
Te shall expect the Loyal League man
lgers to set up howl against the mea-
ure. Governor West in particular will
De disgust"d. He counted on carrying
n his pocket about 5000 officers, and to
become the monarch of Utah, instead
VI which the bill leaves him exactly
where be was before ambitious ideas
'ntered his head-a very insignificant
md uuimportant official with. nothing
o do save to air himself and entertain
he Alta Club with good stories. 1t will
,e most terribly disappointing to the
lungry horde of fellows who counted
N getting the Offices and waxing rich
n the spoliation Of Mormons. The bill
5 yet unrepublicaL and bad, but 1t is SO
much better than the Tucker infamy,
hat one cannot help a'sense of relief
.fter reading the conference commit
ee's changes.